Domestic Violence In Rhonda Copelon's Intimate Terror

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Women are sometimes characterized as “sexual beings”. Their bodies are sometimes are the objects of sexual explication through media, music and literature. But sometimes women’s bodies can represent a sexual terror. Where their bodies used for power and control by another dominant figure. Their main objective is to brutalize and humiliates them, to show their complete dominance over them and that the women are weak and incapable to stop it. This was express in Rhonda Copelon’s piece titled “Intimate Terror”. In her article she discusses how domestic violence can be seen and should seen as act of torture because it represents and identify itself with the definition of toture, which Copelon gives a being an act to “serve physical or mental pain

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